Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-17

lanta Constitution declaring absolutely in fa- vor of protection.
 The election of Mayor Fitch by the Phila- delphia Republicans gives the city good man to use the extraordinary powers put into the hands of Philadelphia's mayor by the Bullitt act.
 One of the New York strikers remarked: ''We struck in sympathy with the coal work CTS and with 49, but it is time now to sym pathize with our families.'' It would have been well for all the strikers who have fam flies to sympathize more with them. The Japanese eat many fish, and Japanese gentleman, now in Boston, has come to the United States especially to study the process es and appliances in use here for breeding, taking and curing fish. He intends to spend some time in Boston and Gloucester, and then take passage fishing vessel bound to the Georges or some other fishing ground. He hopes to carry home some information that will be useful to the fishermen of his country.
 A new and neat way of declining an invi- tation to reception has been invented in Washington. MT. Henry Willard and MT Joseph Willard, both of Washington, are brothers who do not love each other Mr. Henry Willard gave an entertainment and sent card to Joseph reading: ''Mr and Mrs. Henry Willard At home Jan. 15 from 9 to Il D. m." Whereupon Joseph sent card to Henry reading: ''Mr. Joseph Willard, also at home Jan. 15 from 9 to II p. m."
 A temperance hospital was opened in Lon
 don thirteen years ago, with the rule that alcoholic stimulants should never be used | until all other means were exhausted. Dur | ing the thirteen years, out of tens of thou 1 sands of cases treated, there have been only 1 four in which alcohol was used, and the percentage of recovery has been greater than 1 in other hospitals where similar cases are 1 treated A similar hospital has been opened l in Chicago, where all diseases are treated 1 without alcohol, and during several months | since the opening not single death has oc-
 cured among the patients.
 A benevolent New York woman, Mrs. J. | M. Lamadrid, has started no less than six One-cent conee stands within a month, and during that time 30,000 meals have been l sold. Her patrons mainly boot-blacxs
 and newsboys, and the dinner consists of
 baked beans or soup and coffee. Mrs. La
 madrid, recognizing the need of these cheap l booths, went 10 work without attaching her
 self to any philanthropic organization and i started a one-cent counter in Ann street and | with such success that she was encouraged to
 add five others in that part of the city.
 She has thus far superintended the cooking
 of the food, which is delivered at the booths | in a wagon, and she makes daily trip to
 see that the business IS properly conducted.
 Even Mir. Chauncey N. Depew must have
 discovered by this time that it is possible to
 heat cars by steam from the locomotive. It l has been done for four years on the Dunkirk, Alleghany Valley and Pittsburg road. The
 system is described as ''simple, inexpensive,
 quickly adjusted, and easily adapted to the
 conditions of the weather" The engineer
 who runs train that uses this system says 1 'The amount of steam taken from the boiler | is scarcely perceptible, and the required pressure of steam is maintained without any
 additional effort or apparent increase of th'